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February 28, 2019

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“Families in need should not have to choose between feeding themselves or their pets,” said Anker. “During times of economic hardship, it is especially important that families and their pets stay together.”

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Suffolk County asks the question: what to do about marijuana legalization?

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM When it comes to legalizing recreational marijuana, the debate continues in Suffolk County.

More than 100 people filled the Suffolk County Legislature chambers Feb. 25 for a public hearing on the legalization of recreational marijuana and its potential impact. The over twohour meeting fueled a contentious debate between attendees, with supporters pointing to the tax revenue the county could gain from possible legalization and the health benefits attributed to marijuana. Opponents argued that it is a quality of life issue and their view of the plant as a gateway drug, supporting the idea of the county opting out.

County legislators in the health committee held the hearing to gather input from the community as New York State inches closer to legalization. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) expressed his support for legal recreational cannabis in his inaugural address in early January.

John Durso, president of Local 338, a union that represents close to 300 workers in the NYS medical cannabis industry, said he supports legalization and views it as a potential source of economic development in the county — if done right.

“As we got to know more patients, caregivers and medical professionals, we learned even more about the benefits of medical cannabis,” Durso said. “In easing symptoms for those who are ill or those who suffer from chronic pain, [it gives them] the ability to live more fulfilled lives.”

Durso added the legalization of cannabis is an opportunity to expand beyond the five percent of the New York population who are currently enrolled in the state program and allow more to benefit from its effects.

Kim Laube, executive director of nonprofit social services organization Human Understanding and Growth Services, said instead of focusing on just one drug we as a county need to address all drug use for the sake of children.

“When it comes to the young developing brain there are no such things as safe drugs,” Laube said. “Schools across Long Island are fighting this — I just don’t think we are ready today to allow this to come [into the county].”

At first, her stance was a strong no for recreational marijuana, but now with legalization potentially on the horizon she hopes it can be delayed as long as possible.

“Let’s think of how we can build our drug prevention infrastructure,” she said. “Let’s ensure before we roll this out that every youth has access to prevention as much as they have access to drugs.”

Troy Smith, deputy director of the Empire State NORML, an advocacy group for the regulation and safe sale of marijuana, said he is not advocating for legalization, rather regulation to an existing industry and safe access to the plant.

“I would like to urge you all to just say ‘no’ — don’t opt out,” he said.

Smith said many law-abiding citizens partake in the consumption of marijuana, and legalization would lead to the existing business being regulated better so customers are protected. He also added by opting out the county would forfeit tax revenue and benefit drug dealers and criminals.

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Shoreham-Wading River

SWR survey reveals areas to improve in next five years

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM The Shoreham-Wading River Central School District is trying to gauge its long-term future with community, teacher and student feedback.

The district has surveyed district residents to help determine which school functions are doing well and which need to be improved. This data was especially important, Wading River Elementary School Principal Lou Parrinello said, because of expectations over declining enrollment.

“They’re putting it out there because the district is shrinking in enrollment,” Parrinello said.

“This shows what we want to hold dear, what we want to expand and what we want to let go. We don’t want to make those decisions in isolation.”

That loss of students could then mean a loss of revenue for the school over a period of several years, along with shrinking class sizes and potentially less specialized electives available.

Superintendent Gerard Poole said the district has already hosted forums with teachers and students of all grade levels.

In a special focus group meeting Feb. 26, the district asked residents to present their own ideas for where the district should head in the next five years.

In the survey, close to 1,000 residents rated where the strongest and weakest elements of the district were. On the negative end, 47 percent

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Superintendent Gerard Poole speaks to residents about the survey results. Photo by Kyle Barr

of those surveyed said the cafeteria programs needed improvement. While the high school cafeteria remains as it is, the district has used funds from a bond passed in 2015 to create a new kitchen and cafeteria spaces in both the Wading River Elementary School and Albert G. Prodell Middle School. The district plans to renovate the cafeteria with the ongoing bond funds this summer.

A number of teachers, parents and even some students were present to speak about the issues they see with the school, with some noting a lack of proper communication with parents and students, especially over social media.

Karla Roberts, a fourth-grade teacher in the district, said the schools need to look toward standing out among the flock of other districts on Long Is-

land. She was especially disappointed to learn how some seniors in the high school, because they were already at the mandated amount of class credits they needed to graduate, were coming in late during the school day and leaving early.

“It’s making sure all students have something, and [the school] should be tracking if students are in sports, clubs electives, or not,” Roberts said.

High school senior Katie Loscalzo said there is a disconnect between the guidance counselors and the students, especially in guaranteeing there is interest for students in varying classes.

She noted she is currently in an Advanced Placement course with only seven students and is taking an elective with only four enrolled.

“We don’t have those guidance relation-

ships,” the senior said.

The district conducted an enrollment study in 2015, which was updated for the 2017-18 school year. The study predicted the district will recede to 1,650 enrolled students by 2025, compared to its current enrollment of 2,264. Along with a declining birthrate and an aging population, the district has in the past pointed to low housing turnover from 2008 to 2016 for part of its ebbing enrollment figures.

This fact brings a call for strategic developments of new school budgets. At its Feb. 26 meeting, the district revealed a preliminary proposed budget of $75,952,416, approximately a million more than the current year’s budget of $74,776,072 and below the current year’s tax cap of 2.96 percent.

Also represented in the budget is a 3.69 percent drop in state aid funding, based on projections of the New York State budget proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).

In the continuing work of the 2015 bond, the district outlined a number of projects for the upcoming summer, including renovating the high school theater lighting and dimming system, a full reconstruction of the main parking lot, a renovation and expansion of the existing kitchen and serving line and a reconfiguration of the office spaces within the center corridor. The board awarded bids to a number of contractors for that work at the Feb. 26 meeting.

Memorial service set for SBU philanthropist Erwin Staller The Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University is preparing to celebrate the life of Long Island real estate developer and philanthropist, Erwin Staller. A memorial service has been set for April 27 at the venue to remember the SBU benefactor who died Feb. 11, at age 97, at his Lloyd Harbor home.

“Over the years, Erwin Staller’s commitment to the center and to the university was steadfast,” said Alan Inkles, director of the Staller Center. “He, along with his wife Pearl [affectionately called Freddie], his son Cary and the extended family, has been a true supporter of the arts and has been the foundation of the center’s success.”

After his father’s death in 1987, Staller and his family donated the first seven-figure gift to SBU of $1.8 million. The donation resulted in the establishment of The Staller Center for the Arts in memory of his parents, Max and Mary Staller. The developer received the Stony Brook Medal for Extraordinary Service in 1989 and an honorary doctorate of humane letters at SBU in 2001. He also served on the Stony Brook Foundation board of trustees for

An image of Erwin Staller. Photo from Stony Brook University

more than 30 years and was founding chair of Stony Brook Foundation Realty.

“It was always a pleasure to have him and Freddie in the audience knowing how much he enjoyed all kinds of performances,” Inkles said. “As a philanthropist, adviser and friend to the arts, the university and to the region, he will be greatly missed.”

In a letter sent to SBU faculty after Staller’s

passing, SBU President Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. said the initial donation of $1.8 million helped “create a foundation for the Staller’s legacy of philanthropy at Stony Brook University spanning 35 years.” Staller and his wife also funded Staller Scholars, which provides scholarships for graduate music students pursuing doctorates in the Department of Music.

The university credits Staller for championing a project to have a campus hotel for more than 23 years until its fruition in 2013. As a result, the roadway between Hilton Garden Inn and the Administration building will be dedicated as Erwin P. Staller Way. Stanley said Staller, his wife, family and friends joined together in supporting the Staller Center’s mission, and to date they have contributed more than $16 million to fund various programs.

“As we reflect on Erwin’s myriad contributions in time and treasure to benefit our students, faculty, staff and our community, though I will miss him dearly, I am inspired

by Erwin Staller’s vision and focus, and in the knowledge that his powerful legacy will live on at Stony Brook for generations to come,”

Stanley said.

Staller was raised in Hempstead where he graduated from Hempstead High School. He attended Allegheny College in Pennsylvania before enlisting in the U.S. Army and served in the Signal Corps during World War II. In 1946, Staller married Pearl Friedman, whom he had dated in high school, and the couple had five children.

In the late 1950s, Staller and his father cofounded Hauppauge-based Staller Associates, and became among the first entrepreneurs to develop retail shopping centers on Long Island. A supermarket, drugstore and a U.S. Post Office anchored each of their early shopping centers. Together, the father-son duo developed numerous shopping centers, office and industrial buildings on Long Island and in Connecticut.

Staller is survived by his wife, four children and their spouses, and nine grandchildren.

The memorial service will be held April 27 at 1 p.m. The Staller Center is located at 100 Nicolls Road in Stony Brook.

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Rocky Point/Miller Place

Grand marshal named for 69th annual St. Patrick’s parade

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Described as a man who has devoted his time to the community and his faith, John McNamara was genuinely surprised when he received the news from the Friends of St. Patrick organization that he was chosen to be the grand marshal of the 69th Miller Place-Rocky Point St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

“I was shocked and pleasantly surprised,” he said.

McNamara and his wife, Kathy, have lived

in Rocky Point since 1978 where they raised four children: Erin, John, Mark and Kathleen, and now the couple has six grandchildren. He has been involved over the years with the St. Louis de Montfort Church in Sound Beach in teaching and ministry. He is also involved in his local parishes, namely St. Anthony of Padua Church in Rocky Point and St. Mark’s Parish in Shoreham where he has been a youth minister since 1979. He also taught at Maria Regina High School in Uniondale.

The Rocky Point resident acknowledged that being named the grand marshal is a great honor, and he is excited to be a part of the parade and for his family to be there as well.

“When I told my family the news, they were very happy and surprised — just like I was,” he said.

McNamara is excited for his grandchildren to be a part of the festivities as they carry banners along the parade route.

On March 17, McNamara will lead the nearly three-mile march down Route 25A. He said the parade is a way of thanking the community for all they do.

Ray O’Sullivan, secretary for the Friends of St. Patrick has known McNamara for most of his life through the St. Louis de Montfort Church.

“He is a good man — a holy man,” he said.

“We came to the decision to name John the grand marshal this year.”

O’Sullivan said McNamara is well-known for serving the community and that generations of people know him through his work in the churches.

This year’s Miller Place-Rocky Point Parade will also honor James O’Sullivan, who passed away in January, 2017. He was a former president of Friends of St. Patrick and was a member of the organization for over 60 years.

“Jimmy was a great fellow,” McNamara said.

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He would work hours before the parade started to make sure everything was ready to go.

“He gave everything to the organization,” O’Sullivan said. “The parade meant everything to my dad because of his heritage,” Ray’s father came to the United States from Ireland in the mid 1950s and his uncle John Sullivan started the parade in 1950.

“Miller Place and Rocky Point was his adopted home, and he wanted to serve the community,” O’Sullivan said.

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Village

Rocky Point Barber Shop robbed

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Two men smashed the front window of the Rocky Point Barber Shop in the Rocky Point business district and stole store memorabilia Feb. 20, store security camera footage shows.

Security camera footage from Rocky Point Barber Shop shows two men robbing the front display case.

The two individuals, one wearing a hood and the other a bandana, allegedly broke the front window of the barber shop, located at 576 Route 25A at around 2:45 a.m., store owner Yavuz Can said. The robbers didn’t manage to trip any alarms as they went in, despite motion sensors on the inside. Store employees did not learn about the break-in until later in the morning, and police were contacted around 8 a.m.

The shop, known in the area for its $10 men’s haircuts, kept a number of expensive memorabilia in the front case under the register.

Can said the men stole hundreds of dollars worth of collectible coins from the case. The robbers also took display hand grenades and

eight display knives, which the shop owner said were valued at about $60 each. Also stolen was a 20-gauge shotgun and shells, worth around $175. Can added the broken front door glass would cost the store around another $400 to replace. The robbers did not steal from the cash register.

“This hasn’t happened before,” the shop owner said.

Suffolk County police confirmed the shop had been broken into that morning and that items were taken, though they could not confirm any information on the ongoing investigation.

Can asked anybody who might recognize the people in the video to contact Suffolk County police.

Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offers a cash reward of up to $5,000 for information that leads to an arrest. Anyone with information about this incident can contact Suffolk County Crime Stoppers to submit an anonymous tip by calling 800-220-TIPS (8477) or texting “SCPD” and your message to “CRIMES” (274637).

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Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and Suffolk County police 6th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the man and woman who allegedly stole food from a Setauket store.

A man and woman allegedly stole food from BJ’s Wholesale Club, located at 4000 Nesconset Highway in East Setauket, Jan. 20 at around 10:10 a.m.

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Police search for men in Setauket shoplifting case Suffolk County Crime Stoppers and 6th Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s help to identify and locate the men who allegedly stole items from a Setauket store last month.

Two men allegedly stole clothing from Kohl’s, located at 5000 Nesconset Highway, Jan. 5, at approximately 8 p.m. The men fled the store in a white vehicle being driven by another man.

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Marijuana Meeting Continued from A3

Bridgehampton, which grows industrial hemp and sells CBD oil, echoed Smith’s sentiments of not opting out.

“If by chance the county feels like it needs to opt out, I just ask them that this decision is not left up to a small board of temporarily appointed representatives and that it goes to a referendum vote,” he said. His sentiments was followed by loud applause from pro-legalization supporters.

Some residents expressed concerns about quality of life and potential second-hand smoke hazards. If the county chose not to opt out, one

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resident asked representatives to outlaw and prohibit smoking in multiple unit-dwelling buildings to avoid the issue of people getting a contact high.

For Kimberly Miller of Deer Park, marijuana isn’t all about getting high — it is more personal.

As a recovering alcoholic and sexual assault survivor who suffers from depression, anxiety and PTSD, Miller said, for her and others like her, microdosing marijuana fills the gap traditional medicine doesn’t provide.

“Today I’m here asking you to fill one last gap for me,” she said. “Legalize and regulate marijuana, like you do with alcohol and tobacco.

Let me buy it from a reputable business and let me pay taxes on it. Build some commerce. It’s a win-win for both of us.”

A crowd packed the auditorium of the William H. Rogers building to speak on legalized marijuana Photo by David Luces

SBU forum broaches segregation, housing, education inequality on LI

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM While de facto segregation among Long Island’s school districts and housing has been entrenched for decades, there is a growing academic movement to bring people closer together.

As part of the forum, “Housing and Racio-economic Equality” Elaine Gross, president of the Syosset-based advocacy group ERASE Racism, which co-sponsored the event, along with professors from Duke and Johns Hopkins Universitys discussed the history of racism and segregation in the U.S. and how it has affected public housing and education. Gross argued that there is racial segregation and inequality crisis in housing and public education on Long Island.

“There are folks that think that things are fine how they are,” she said.

At the forum hosted at the Hilton Garden Inn at Stony Brook Univesrity, Gross argued that there is severe government fragmentation on Long Island, which in turn makes it easier for racial discrimination in housing and public education.

Nathan Connolly, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University, said we have to rethink what we know about segregation.

“We are under the impression that segregation ended due to a combination of moral arguments, like [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s] I Have a Dream Speech, and that segregation was too expensive to maintain,” he said. “Segregation is profitable, and it didn’t end — it is still ongoing.”

Connolly added due to many Jim Crow era policies, white supremacy has been baked into our political and governing structure.

“In the 1920s people began to institutionalize groups like the Ku Klux Klan,” Connolly said.

“They had chapters in cities like Detroit, Chicago and Washington, D.C.— it was a dominant force of political organization.”

In many ways, the experts argued Long Island, in terms of its development of housing, is the perfect picture of what structural racism looks like.

From left: ERASE Racism President Elaine Gross, Duke University professor Kim Manturuk, John Hopkins University professor Nathan Connolly, SBU professor Christopher Sellers. Photo by David Luces

Gross stated some towns and school districts on Long Island are more segregated than others, showing areas like Levittown, whose black population has only risen 1.2 percent since 1947. At an ERASE Racism forum in December, Gross provided data from New York State Department of Education that shows a school district like Port Jefferson is made up of 80 percent white students, while in a district like Brentwood close to 80 percent of students are Latino while 12 percent are black.

The panelists argued this racial steering of populations dates back to the time of the Great Depression. “[There was] a notion that anything that allowed unregulated movement of people would lead to economic instability,” Connolly said.

“You had to generate a way to keep everyone in place, while at the same time ensuring broad economic growth.”

One way this was done was through redlining, or the denial of services to different races through raising the prices on services, or in this case, homes.

Connolly said by removing these people’s options in moving around or getting a loan with a low interest rate it meant they couldn’t own homes and couldn’t accumulate equity, which in turn generated a racial wealth gap.

Gross mentioned examples of this racial steering on Long Island. Three years ago in Commack, African American renters asked about vacancies at an apartment complex. They were told there were none. When white individuals asked, they were shown the vacancy, given applications and were encouraged to apply.

ERASE Racism, along with the nonprofit Fair Housing Justice Center, took property owners Empire Management America Corp. to court, arguing it had violated the Federal Fair

Housing Act and the Suffolk County Human Rights Law. The duo reached a successful settlement of $230,000 and required changes to the rental operations at the apartment complex.

Kim Manturuk, associate director of research, evaluation, and development at Duke University provided possible solutions to segregation on Long Island.

“Adapt a metropolitan approach, that has these cross district governing bodies that try to simplify, organize together things like education, infrastructure development among other things,” she said.

Though she cautioned that even when you have these procedures in place, it’s no guarantee that you get the desired results, and they need to find ways to make desegregation profitable.

She mentioned in her own community of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, they have something called the Penny for Housing Fund.

“One penny of every property tax dollar collected in the entire county goes into a housing fund. We use that money to incentivize developers to build housing that has an affordable housing component that cuts races and ethnic lines,” she said.

If developers want to build a housing complex in the North Carolina county, they would have to set aside 10 percent of the apartment to families that are making 80 percent below the median income in the area.

Gross said the change needs to begin on the local level. She stressed the importance of building diverse communities.

“We need educators that buy into this change,” she said. “Also students — educating them about our history, one that is not heard about in schools.”

Gross said it will take a collaborative effort to show that something like this can work.

“People don’t believe — it is hard to dispel myths to them in the face of facts,” she said.

“Unless they can see it and see the students and the community thriving, they won’t buy into it.”

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Frank J. Carasiti Elementary School

Harold Salyer

Frank J. Carasiti Elementary School students Caliope O’Rourke and John Tringone show their artwork. Photos from RPUFSD

Rocky Point elementary students showcase their art As a result of their exceptional artistic talents, Frank J. Carasiti Elementary School students Caliope O’Rourke and John Tringone had their artwork selected for showcase in this year’s Colors of Long Island Art Show at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook.

Caliope’s piece was a fall landscape refection. While in her art class, she had learned that a landscape is an image of land and that reflection is symmetrical. She had studied painter Georgia O’Keefe’s works from her paintings of Lake George, in particular her use of warm and cool colors, which were the inspiration for

her landscape.

John’s artwork was a water color still life.

In preparation for the project, John learned about the concept of perspective in a drawing and how objects overlap in a space. The student studied famous artist Paul Cezanne and how he achieved the idea of perspective in his works.

Both students created their submissions with the help of school art teacher Laura Goelz. Their pieces will be on exhibit for public view in the museum’s Visitors Center through April 7.

Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School

Longtime Shoreham resident and former Rocky Point resident Harold Salyer died Feb. 20. He was 89.

Salyer was born June 15, 1929, and later graduated from Port Jefferson High School and SUNY Farmingdale. Salyer was a very active member at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Rocky Point, even before it was locally known as the fish church. He was part of the building committees that created the unique church and later the parish hall. He met his future wife Lorraine through youth programs at the church when it was just a small building across the street, but it wasn’t until after he returned from the Korean War that he married her and remained so for 65 years.

He worked for the Suffolk County Water Authority for many years, and later became the commodore for the Mount Sinai Yacht Club in 1990. He also founded and became president of the Long Island Sound district of the Order of the Blue Gavel, an international association of past yacht club commodores.

Salyer is survived by his children Dianna Lurkens, Alyson Macomb, Eve Miceli and Beth Huppert; his nine grandchildren; and his five great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his daughter Susan.

Visitation was held Feb. 24 at the Rocky Point Funeral Home and services were conducted Feb. 25 at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. He was buried at Washington Memorial Park in Mount Sinai.

Stephanie Parsons Stephanie M. Parsons of Medford died

Laddie A. Decker students participate in activites teaching about Native Americans. Photos from MPSD

Miller Place students learn about Native Americans Miller Place students in fourth grade at Laddie A. Decker Sound Beach School explored Native American culture after transforming the elementary school into a temporary Native American museum. Each class in the fourth grade attended an eastern woodlands full-day workshop program that included, to name a few, a museum presentation, traditional stories and games, crafts, singing and dancing. Students were given the opportunity to help lead the

group with the speaker in the demonstration and storytelling portions of the day. Students even got up close and personal with replica Native American artifacts.

The event was designed to be an interactive way to educate students on American origins and the value of understanding diverse cultures.

LADSBS’s students enjoyed switching up their daily routine to learn about Native American history in a nontraditional classroom setting.

Feb. 10. She was 71.

She was the cherished mother of Andrea (Frank) Moscatiello and Suzanne (Ben) Moscatiello; the loving grandmother of Frank, Vincent, Benjamin and Stephen; as well as many other family members and friends.

A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Francis Cabrini R.C. Church in Coram, and interment followed at Mount St. Mary’s Cemetery in Flushing.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Branch Funeral Home of Miller Place. An online guest book is available at www.branchfh. com.

Robert Higgins Robert J. “Bob” Higgins of Coram died Feb. 11.

He was the loving husband of Ellen; beloved father of Colette; dear son of Joseph and Patricia; and cherished brother of Joseph (Marybeth), Nancy (Ted), John, Patricia (Ken), Tara (Peter), Kathleen (Joseph) and Paul (Kate).

A funeral Mass was celebrated at St. James R.C. Church in Setauket, and interment followed at St. James Cemetery in Setauket.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Bob Higgins Memorial Fund with a check payable to St. Anthony’s High School in South Huntington.

Arrangements were entrusted to the Branch Funeral Home of Miller Place.

An online guest book is available at www.branchfh.com.

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BY BILL LANDON DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Mount Sinai, fresh off their decisive 27 point victory against Westhampton for the Class A title game two days earlier, squared off against Class C qualifier Pierson/Bridgehampton for the small school crown Feb. 22. Having already won against the No. 1 seed Westhampton, Pierson should have been a much easier match, yet there was nothing easy about it when the Whalers closed with four points late in the 3rd quarter before the Mustangs stood on the gas and shut the door to win the game 69-55.

Mount Sinai senior guard Gabby Sartori led the way like she has all season, nailing 11 field goals, a triple and seven free throws to lead the Mustangs in scoring with 32. Senior guard Brooke Cergol hit three from the floor, two treys and a pair from the charity stripe,

notching 14 followed by senior teammate Holly McNair who banked 7.

The win propelled the Mustangs to the Section XI championship round where they faced Longwood who sat atop the Class AA field Feb. 27 at Walt Whitman High School.

Results were not available by press time.

Photos clockwise from left: Mount Sinai freshman guard Kylie Budke shoots and scores; senior guard Gabby Sartori lets a 3-pointer fly; freshman guard Casey Campo drains a 3-pointer; senior guard Brooke Cergol lets loose a 3-pointer; senior forward Holly McNair tips off against Pierson’s Calia Barranco; sophomore forward Amanda Dowler shoots from the paint; with the game won, the Mustangs were crowned small school champions.

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School districts, tighten your belts This year, more than ever, Long Islanders are about to find themselves in a jam when it comes to taxes.

It’s been a little more than a month since employees received their 2018 W-2 forms. While that extra $20 or maybe $60 in each paycheck felt great to pocket in January 2018 due to passage of President Donald Trump’s (R) Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it probably doesn’t feel quite so good now.

Thousands of middle-class residents are facing a sobering reality upon calculating their 2018 tax returns. Many are finding out their anticipated tax refund has turned into an IOU to Uncle Sam. It’s in part thanks to the elimination of several federal deductions of moving expenses, home equity loan interest or, particularly, the $10,000 cap on state and local taxes deduction.

It’s the SALT cap that is playing a major factor in reducing or elimination people’s anticipated federal tax return. The average property taxes for Suffolk homeowners is $9,333, according to a 2017 analysis by ATTOM Data Solutions. It’s even higher for many property owners along the North Shore in Setauket, Huntington and Smithtown. Now, there’s nothing to help offset Suffolk’s high taxes.

For the average Suffolk homeowner, 60 percent of their annual tax bill is due to educational costs, according to the 2017 study. Or, more than half can be attributed to your local school district’s tax levy and annual budget.

As many North Shore residents come to the realization their property taxes alone exceed the SALT deduction limit of $10,000, school districts are starting to unveil their first drafts of the 2019-20 budgets. While most districts, if not all, anticipate a proposed budget that stays within the state-mandated 2 percent tax cap, any increase in taxes no matter how marginal will continue to put an increased burden on residents.

It is an undeniable truth that providing our children with a good, solid education in a safe setting is of the utmost importance. We must beg the question — is there some way to do it in a more cost-effective manner? We’re not asking school administrators to cut corners but think creatively when drafting their 2019-20 budgets.

Whether the state-mandated tax levy cap is 1.83 or 2.58 percent, we’re asking you to think of cost-saving measures — for example, collaboratively purchasing goods and services cheaper in bulk — to help keep the school taxes increases far below that cap. If we were to think of the state-mandated tax cap as a ceiling, we want to ensure there’s adequate space or gap between the budget’s ceiling and the annual increases.

Everyone has to pull together to keep living on Suffolk’s North Shore affordable, one part of which is keeping taxes as low as possible. As school district taxes make up the largest portion of our taxes, we have to ask districts to please tighten your belts a little more and keep those tax levies low.

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NY needs an independent utility advocate I congratulate State Sen. Ken LaValle (R-Port Jefferson) and Assemblyman Steven Englebright (D-Setauket) on their re-elections in 2018. Now that the legislative session has resumed in Albany, it’s time for them and their colleagues to take care of the people’s business. As an AARP member in their districts, I applaud LaValle’s and Englebright’s commitment to public service and look forward to working with both to improve the lives of

New York’s 50 years and older population.

I urge LaValle and Englebright to work together for the creation and funding of an independent utility consumer advocate in the next state budget.

Currently 40 other states have such an advocate with the power to challenge rate hikes in court. We New Yorkers, who pay some of the highest utility rates in the nation, surely need that — now. I, for one, am tired of utility companies spending

part of the money I pay them on lawyers and experts to try to raise my utility rates.

Once again, congratulations to LaValle and Englebright and we all look forward to working with you both on this and other important initiatives for the 50-plus New York population.

Charlie McAteer Port Jefferson Station AARP Volunteer Advocate for Suffolk County

Read legislation before casting a vote Today’s generation in U.S. Congress along with members of the New York State Senate and Assembly could learn much from the late Idaho Republican Sen. James McClure who passed away eight years ago on Feb. 26, 2011. His claim to fame on Capitol Hill was for 18 years, he read every word of every bill before voting on it. For many years, he signed his own mail.

Fast forward to today, did members of Congress take an Evelyn Wood speedreading class to absorb the hundreds of pages contained in a previous temporary stopgap spending bill along with other so-called “emergency legislation” passed in the dead of night? Members received these items with only hours before being asked to vote up or down. Only lobbyists

along with key congressional staff members employed by the House and Senate leadership teams, who actually wrote the fine print within the many hundreds of pages on behalf of their bosses, had any idea of the details buried in the actual contents.

There should be a seven-dayminimum time-out period. This would provide adequate time for members of any legislative body but also ordinary citizens, the media and independent good government watchdog groups the opportunity to understand all of the contents contained in any proposed bill. Everyone would also have the opportunity under an open process to comment and discuss the merits or

consequences before others vote up or down for adoption.

Ditto for reading the thousands of daily automated robo letters sent to constituents, who have taken their own personal time to write. Liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, we would all be better off if members of Congress, the state Legislature and New York City Council members would take time to actually read, line by line and openly debate in public any proposed legislation before voting. Their legislative actions impact both our economic and civil liberties. Future generations have to pay for and live with the consequences.

Larry Penner Great Neck

Where dogs are not allowed — and allowed It seems that the general public needs another reminder that dogs are not allowed at West Meadow Beach.

During a recent picture-perfect Saturday, I encountered several families walking their dogs on Trustees Road.

If you have ever been to West Meadow Beach, you know it is impossible to miss the many “ No dogs allowed” signs.

All the families acknowledged that they did in fact see the signs. They just choose to ignore the rule/law. One man told me to “mind my own business and to keep walking.” Then taunting comments followed asking if I was the “dog police — go ahead and arrest me.” Another person walking commented to them as well, and they turned and left. One couple just kept walking their large dog.

It doesn’t matter if you feel the rule/ law is annoying and you feel your dog deserves a walk on the beach. There is

a set rule that all dogs are not allowed.

Meaning, your dog is not the exception to the rule.

For information: West Meadow is a wetland reserve.

As far as I know, all North Shore beaches have the same “no dogs” rule.

Certain South Shore ocean beaches during the off-season allow dogs. Even better news is that right here, in the Three Villages, we have three amazing places to bring your dog for a beautiful and longer stroll. They are: 1. Avalon Park in Stony Brook village with wonderful trails, farmland and vistas.

2. Frank Melville Memorial Park, including the ponds and Bates House, with 24 acres of beautiful trails including one along the bay, and a paved trail around the pond. Lots of other dogs to meet, too.

3. The Greenway Trail of more than

3 miles, end to end, of safe and quiet strolling. Again, lots of dogs and happy families walking them.

If you and your dog want to get out of town, there is Blydenburgh County Park in Smithtown. They have a dog park where your pet can run free in a fenced-in area.

I encourage all people who come upon a person blatantly ignoring the rules of West Meadow to politely encourage them to walk their pet at one of the above mentioned locations. To simply walk by them, without bringing attention to the fact that they are being disrespectful, is encouraging them to continue this rude practice.

Also, where is the beach warden? I thought we had a paid public servant of the beach living in a beautifully renovated beach cottage?

Susan Blake Setauket

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Opinion

To wave or not to wave, that is the question

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ait, was that at me? How am I supposed to know? She’s still waving. I could wave back, but what if she’s waving to someone else. Should I put my stupid hand in the stupid air and risk the possibility of looking stupid?

Yes, this happened to me many times during my adolescence. How was I supposed to react when someone I kind of knew, D. None or maybe wanted of the above to know, was waving in my direcBY DANIEL DUNAIEF tion? Sometimes, I pretended I didn’t see the person waving, while

I casually looked around to see if anyone near me was responding. I probably looked like I had a neck twitch, as I scanned the area to see if it was safe to wave.

These days, the waving conundrum has taken a different form, especially after we moved away from the tristate area. It appears that the Northeast and Southeast have different rules for waving. In the Northeast, we wave when someone we know well walks by us in the car. If they don’t see us, perhaps we offer a quick and polite tap on our horn, just to let them know we saw them and we’ll likely text or email them later.

If someone we’re pretty sure we don’t know waves, we immediately assume that someone else is the recipient of their gesture — they have a small dog on the loose and we better slow down, or their children are playing a Nerf gun game and might dart into the street. If they continue to wave, we squint for

a while, trying to figure out if maybe they’ve lost weight. It could be they’re someone we might have met casually at one of our kids sporting events, or they want us to sign a petition, or even buy a product we’re sure we don’t need because we can’t stand all the crap we already have in our own house.

Of course, if we have our defensive curled upper-lip action going too quickly, we might scare away our son’s teacher, our daughter’s assistant coach or a new neighbor who has introduced herself to us four times.

In the Southeast, however, the rules are different. Most of the people in the passing cars wave when I walk the dog. Yes, we have a dog and, no, you can’t pet him even though he’s pulling as hard as he can to get to you because I have to bring him back inside so I can do some writing. I’ve stopped trying to figure out the source of the amicable gesture and I wave back. My son, who sometimes accompanies

me on these dog walks, wondered, “Hey, do you know that person?” He is still playing by the rules of the Northeast.

I explained that I wave at every car, even the likely empty parked vehicles in case someone is sitting in them, because that’s what you do here. I told him I’ve conducted my own experiment, where I don’t wave and I see what happens. More often than not, the person slows down and waves even more vigorously, as if to say, “Hey, I’m waving here.

Now it’s your turn.”

Kids in the modern era seem to have solved the waving problem. They do a quick head nod, which could be a response to a similar gesture from someone else or it could be a way of reacting to music no one else hears. Then again, they’ve probably figured out how to make a thinner, acne-free virtual version of themselves wave at cartoon versions of their friends.

President Johnson: a Civil Rights hero

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efore February’s Black History Month moves away for another year, I would like to share with you the exciting story I read in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, “Leadership: In Turbulent Times,” with lessons from four presidents as leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. Now you might be thinking that’s not the sexiest subject to be writing or reading about, but in her storytelling hands, it is a page turner.

We all know too well that Johnson, the Democratic vice Between president, became president when you and me John F. Kennedy

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. At that time, Kennedy’s progressive legislation was totally bogged down in Congress, going nowhere.

What might not be so well known is that LBJ, as he was fondly known, was a “master mechanic” of the legislative process for he had come of age in politics in Congress. “It was his fierce resolve not

simply to dislodge Kennedy’s stalled agenda but to realize a society built on racial and economic justice far beyond the [FDR’s] New Deal and [Kennedy’s] New Frontier,” Goodwin wrote.

Taking advantage of the short burst of sympathy and support that he expected to realize from the nation, Johnson, a Texan, wanted to get the contentious civil rights bill, designed to end segregation in the South, enacted. “We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights.

We have talked for 100 years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law,” he told Congress in his address to the nation on Nov. 27, 1963.

But first he needed some congressional momentum to oil the rails and cleverly called for Kennedy’s tax cut to pass. Less divisive than the issue of civil rights, the bill had passed in the House after 13 months but was opposed by Virginia Sen. Harry Byrd, a conservative Democrat and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Conservatives then adamantly believed in a balanced budget. The idea of tax cuts came from liberals.

Johnson was able to work out a deal with Byrd.

If he could get the proposed budget down below $100 billion in 1965, Byrd would bring the bill to the floor for a vote. With great effort, Johnson did, the bill was voted on and the Revenue Act of 1964 was passed into law on Feb. 26, barely three short

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months after the assassination.

Now came the bigger challenge: civil rights.

Once the tax cut bill passed, promising more revenue from increased business that could be spent on social services, Lyndon Johnson focused his attention and his legislative expertise on securing the mandate of law for civil rights.

To say the least, Southern Congressional Republicans, many of them Johnson’s friends, adamantly opposed his effort. He liked to tell them his personal story about his longtime black employees, his housemaid and butler, Helen and Gene Williams, and his cook, Zephyr Wright.

Each year Johnson asked them to drive his extra car from Washington, D.C., back to Texas, a threeday journey. One year Johnson asked Gene to take along his affectionate beagle as well. It was then that Johnson learned how difficult such a trip was for those of color: almost no places on the road to stop and eat, almost no bathrooms in which they were allowed, few places to sleep. “A colored man’s got enough trouble getting across the South on his own, without having a dog along,” Gene explained. Now, all these years later, the winner of the best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards, “Green Book,” tells us the same story about traveling through the South in the 1960s with its unjust system of segregation.

Johnson knew his passionate advocacy for this bill would separate him from the South and from

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his Southern friends and colleagues.

Johnson confronted those in Congress with how wrong segregation was and tirelessly worked the legislative system for passage of his bill. He challenged Virginia’s defiant Judge Howard Smith, a Democratic congressman and chair of the House Rules Committee by resorting to the discharge petition, a rarely used procedure, to blast the bill out of committee with the help of a majority of representatives. He rallied those outside the House to pressure their elected representatives to free the bill. The strategy worked, as leaders all over the country organized to do just that.

Once out of committee, the House passed the strongest civil rights bill since Reconstruction.

Next came the Senate. Johnson took on Richard Russell (D-Georgia), Senate leader of the Southern opposition, in a pitched battle that proved history is the result of individuals in the right place at the right time. Only a son of the South could have persevered at that juncture. Johnson managed, with the help of Republicans, and especially Senate minority leader, Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois), to break the Southern-led Senate filibuster. The bill then passed in the Senate.

On July 2, Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. He ended by saying, “To the extent Negroes were free, really free, so was I. And so was my country.”

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